Philosophical Basis For Brighton's K-12 Math Program

• Mathematics can and must be learned by all students. Mathematics education requires high expectations and strong support for all students to be successful and meet their full potential.
• A mathematics curriculum should be coherent and well articulated across the grades. The curriculum should guide students to increasing levels of sophistication and depth of knowledge.
• A mathematics curriculum should support development of thinking and reasoning skills while focused on important mathematical ideas.
• The mathematics curriculum should support the communication of ideas through reading, writing, and discussion.
• Students must learn mathematics with conceptual understanding to enable them to solve the new kinds of problems the rapidly changing world presents.
• Assessment should be an ongoing classroom activity that supports the learning of mathematics and informs instruction.
• Effective teaching requires that the teacher knows and understands mathematics, knows and understands the developmental stages of learners, and knows and employs a variety of instructional strategies.
• Technology should be used in mathematics education as a teaching tool to enhance student learning, but not as a replacement for basic understanding and computational fluency.